Legal Provisions

Notification on fly ash utilization dated 14-09-99

by The Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of India

A.      No person within the radius of 50 km. from coal based Thermal Power Plants can manufacture clay bricks/tiles/blocks without mixing 25% of fly ash or bottom ash or pond ash.

B.      Coal based Thermal Power Plants commissioned subject to environmental clearance condition for full utilization of fly ash shall achieve 100% use within 9 years from the date of notification and those who are not covered by stipulation in the environmental clearance shall achieve 100% fly ash utilization within 15 years from the date of notification.

C.      Construction agencies and local authorities shall prescribe use of ash and its products in their schedules of specifications, building byelaws and regulations.

D.     The Thermal Power Plants shall make available ash without any payment for producing ash based products - cement, concrete blocks, bricks panels, construction of roads, embankments, dam, dykes or any construction activity.

E.      The action plan for 9 years utilization shall include 30% of fly ash use within initial 3 years and 10% progressively every year onwards and the action plan for15 year utilization shall include 20% fly ash utilization within initial 2 years.

F.       The authority for ensuring the use of fly ash for the manufacture of bricks and other construction activities shall be the concerned Regional Officer of the State Pollution Control Board and in case of non-compliance, the state pollution control board in addition to the cancellation of consent order issued to establish the brick kiln, shall move the district administration for cancellation of mining lease, after due hearing.